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My First Memories of my Father

My dad was in the British Army in the Transport Section and was sent to war in September 1939, when I was...

Recycling is Not a New Idea

My earlist recollection of minor wartime events as I was involved in was watching troops which I believed...

A Plane for a Playground

After it was cleared by bomb disposal we were able to play on it. I could flap the wings, get the landing...

Machine-Gunning of Civilians

When the air raids were at their worst I was at school in Halesowen in Worcestershire... It was common...

Ballyhackamore

During the war I lived in 23 Housten Street Ballyhackamore with my mother, and two brothers... As my mother...

Saved by Chicken Pox

Immediately after he had gone, my brother, one year older than me, a young girl who had been evacuated to...

Waltzing Matilda

I remember there being lots of barrage balloons near where I lived and one in particular which was always...

Souvenir of Liberation and Reunion Card.

As a 10 year-old boy in a mixed class of 40 children at the above school, I was asked by our teacher,...

Where are you now Oliver Harrison?

My aunt, Sarah Barton, had a teenager evacuee called Oliver Harrison and one day when I was in her house...

The Day School was Bombed

The school had been bombed last night while Pam and her Mum sheltered in the Andersen air raid shelter at...

Beneath the Stairs: V1 over Bexley Heath

During the duration ofthe doodlebug bombings the family would take shelter in the cupboard under the...

My Hair Saved My Life! by Adrienne Russell

My Hair Saved My Life! by Adrienne Russell. My mum has always told me that I should never moan about my...

Being an Evacuee

But alas we soon found out that there was no tap water, only water from a well for drinking only.Washing...

Prisoners of War in Wiltshire

If I stood at our front door and looked to the front there was Boscombe Down Airfield, to the right was...

A Boy's Brush with the Enemy

During the war we often had German bombers flying over our village to drop their bombs on Liverpool which...

Knapp Road School, London - Bombed

It was not untill 1990 I found out that the school was half-filled with the dead from the London Blitz, and...

Matthew Bank Bombs

I recall one night when the Germans bombed Matthew Bank, my father took us to the front door and we watched...

Evacuation in Derbyshire.

My father decided this was a target and it was arranged that I would be evacuated to the north of the...

The Night the Ceiling Fell In

During the war I lived with my parents at Number 4 Hazelwood Cottages on the Alfold Road out of Cranleigh....

Experiences of WW2 in Devon and Cornwall

Before that event we spent about a year enduring nightly airraids on the nearby Plymouth dockyard.We used...

My Evacuation

As told by Brian Coster. In May 1940, I was evacuated to Blaenarvon, a mining village in Wales....

Memories of Evacuation

I have vivid memories of marching to Waterloo Station from Walworth to be evacuated to Topsham near...

On the Steps with Me Grandma

Actually I was brought up by me Grandma because I was born before me mother got married... And when the...

Country Life

Evacuated at nine years old to Wales, near Abergele and lived there for four years on a farm run by an old...

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2 (the refugees)

3 THE REFUGEES After the Blitz, which killed and injured so many in Belfast there were even more people...

Childhood Memories

As a young child I remember seeing the Americans arrive in Dawley... I used to play with evacuees sent to...